Furniture shopping

We went furniture shopping today. We started out at Linders since they were having a close out sale. We saw a couple of sets that we liked but they were 2 seats short. We decided to move to Living Spaces and there we found the perfect set! The table was originally paired with the chair you see at the head of this pic but we found that they were too wide to fit 3 chairs to a side when the table leaf was taken out. Fortunately, we found narrower seats that worked perfectly and even matched the wood of the table. Awesome find!!

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Chopsticks

A package from Grandma came today in the mail. It included these kids chopsticks that you all were excited about. It was perfect timing too since we were having pad thai for dinner.a

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Tea Party

An early evening tea party... plain ole sisterly fun. You are blessed to have each other. For now, these are pretend tea parties but soon enough they will be real life get-togethers. Whether real or pretend, I know for sure that the moments you spend together are special times of building relationships.

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Training 'Em Young

She wanted to help. She was the big sister after all. So after I put on Baby's onesie, she managed the snaps. Love her look of concentration. She certainly took her job seriously!

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A-shopping We Will Go

A weekly errand - grocery shopping. With my parents in the Philippines, I do not have any choice but bring all 5 kids with me. The kids love coming with me. Shopping takes longer when they're with me but I'm learning to take it in stride. We're building memories. Enjoy the journey.

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Building Good Habits

"A habit is overcome by habit." (Erasmus)

I want to get healthy this year so I've chosen to build 3 habits to help live a healthier, happier life. The first is for my spiritual health. The second is for physical health. The third is for my creative health.

Instead of focusing on what I will not do, I chose to focus on what I will do to make myself better.

So here's to building good habits!

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2012

Happy 2012!!!

I'm back with my Project 365+1/Project Life for this year. I'm really excited to be doing this once again. I took a break last year as I felt I had other more important things to take care of. But now, I'm back!

The kids really enjoy looking through our 2010 Project Life album so I'll be putting my printed photos into a 2012 Project Life (PL) album again. PL has become so popular that inspiration abounds all over the net. So inspiring to see how different people make it their own. I've gathered some wonderful ideas that I will try with my own album. So many possibilities.

With my P365+1, I'm receiving daily prompts from Katrina Kennedy's Capture My 365 to give me ideas for days when I'm stumped.

This is going to be an awesome year for me creatively! I know it!

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